quartations

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A form of quartation — The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of quartation
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